Pagination
The practice of splitting large API responses across multiple pages. Most APIs return a maximum of 100 records per request. Proper pagination loops through all pages until no more results remain critical when processing complete datasets.
Expert insight
A workflow that fetches "all records" from an API but doesn't handle pagination will silently process only the first page (often 20-100 records) and behave as if that were the complete dataset, one of the most common silent-failure bugs in integrations against APIs with large datasets.
In a real workflow
A CRM returns contacts 100 at a time; the workflow follows the "next page" link until the end.
Common mistakes
- Processing only the first page and believing it is complete.
- Changing filters between pages, which skips records.
Complexity level
Requires some familiarity with automation concepts.
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